Removable fencepost



ROBERT R. HAGE, 0F MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

REMOVABLE FENCEPOST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 24, 1921.

Application filed October 30, 1919. Serial No. 334 0,5.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT R. HAGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Removable Fenceposts; and I do hereby declare the f ollowing to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to removable fence posts, and has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly elicient socket or base member for holding .such posts. The invention is intended for general use, but it is especially adapted for use between two gates so that one of said gates, for instance, maybe used for vehicles, and the other for pedestrians, and, if an unusually wide opening in the fence is required, the post may be removed and both gates opened. Or the removable post may be placed at one side of the gate opening so that the same, together with the attached fence section, may be removed in ease a wide opening in the fence is required.

To the above end, generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters in dicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the invention incorporated in a fence, some parts beingillustrated by means of broken lines;

Fig. 2 is a view of the invention in vertical section on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the invention, with some parts diagrammatically illustrated by means ofl broken lines;

Fig. 4l is a view principally in plan, with some parts sectioned on the line 4--4 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the socket member.

rlfhe numeral 6 indicatesV a fence post which, as shown, is square in cross section, and two of its contiguous surfaces at the lower ends thereof are beveled at 7. This post 6 is removably secured. in a socket or base member 8, which is set in the ground Z so that the top thereof is substantially flush therewith.

The socket member 8 may be made from cast metal or other suitable material preferably set in cement. At its top, the socket member 8 is square in cross section and two of its contiguous inner walls 9 are plumb, and against which walls the post 6 is positioned to support the same in an upright position. The other two internal walls of the socket member 8 are oblique and indicated by the numeral 10.

The angles of the two oblique walls 10, at the lower ends thereof, are materially increased to afford post-engaging surfaces V11 with which the beveled surfaces 7, on the lower end of the post 6, engage when the post 6 is placed in the socket member 8 to force said post laterally against the two plumb walls 9. To further secure and hold the post 6 against the plumb walls 9 of thesocket member 8, two flat wedges 12 are driven between the oblique walls 10 and the adjacent faces of the post 6.

Preferably, as shown, the tops of the wedges 12 extend above the top of the socket member 8 and are provided with openings 13 to receive a suitable tool, not shown, by which said wedges may be withdrawn to permit the removal of thefenee post 6 from the socket member `8. The bottom of the socket member 8 is open to permit drainage.

What I claim is A post socket member having contiguous fiat plumb walls and an oblique flat Wall opposite each plumb wall, the angles of the lower end portions of the oblique walls being materially increased to afford post-engaging surfaces to force a post against the plumb walls, and wedges coperating with said oblique walls for holding the post against the plumb walls. Y

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature.

ROBERT R. HAGE. 

